Mounted cavalry, one man with a flag, ride down the main street of Rosita (Custer County), Colorado. Spectators line the street. Commercial buildings and the school house are shown. Signs read: "Billiards," "Old Kentucky Whiskies," "C.W. Stoddard...

View of two abandoned houses in Rosita, Custer County, Colorado, shows one cross gabled frame house with bargeboard, a covered porch, an unreadable sign over the entry and missing or boarded over windows.

Patches of snow lie on the hillside in the background above Rosita in Custer County, Colorado. Numerous houses and buildings line the dirt streets of the town. A church is in the right midground. A ridge of mountains is faintly visible in the right...

A man sits with his dog outside of a hewn log cabin near Rosita (Custer County), Colorado. The cabin has a single doorway, a rack of elk horns over the door, a chimney, and a sign reading: "Elkhorn Palace."

Miners pose among board and batten buildings at an Rosita mine near Rosita, Custer County, Colorado. One of the buildings has a tall smoke stack projecting up from the roof; Sangre de Cristo Range in the distance.

View of Rosita, Custer County, Colorado, shows houses, businesses, mining sheds and the white gable roof school with belltower built in a wide valley. The Sangre De Cristo Range is in distance covered in snow.

Men, women, and children pose in front of the Rosita, Custer County, Colorado schoolhouse with a Newfoundland dog. They wear poke bonnets, flounces, felt hats and aprons. The school is a two-story frame building with a cross gabled roof, brick...

Men pose with a dog on the boardwalk of a false front frame post office with plate glass windows, Rosita, Custer County, Colorado. They wear suspenders, sack coats, gold chains, and vests; one rolls a cigarette. This Post Office was active between...

A gravestone for two at the cemetery in Rosita, Colorado, features a curvilinear top, the raised image of a wreath, and two inscriptions that read: "Huldah Scoggen Died Dec. 21. 1878. Aged 35 Years.," and, "Edgar Grant Davis Died April 4. 1880....

A gravestone for two at the cemetery in Rosita, Colorado, features two pointed arches, raised images of leaves and flowers, and two inscriptions that read: "John L. Husband of M. J. Maughan Born Nov. 16. 1847 Died July 6, 1879.," and, "Annie A....

View of Rosita, Custer County, Colorado, shows people on dirt street flanked by frame businesses and dwellings, a dress hung in front of a store near a street light, and the school cross gable and belfry in distance.

View of main street in Rosita, Custer County, Colorado, shows frame and hewn log dwellings, businesses, pedestrians and horse drawn buggies. This mining town, named for abundant local wild roses, suffered a major fire in 1881.